From: bellemarecd@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/9/2021 7:17 PM, artyw2@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > CDB wrote:   
   >> Kentucky Jelly Buddha wrote:   
   >>> Beaver Fever wrote:   
      
   >>>> I am watching this now and not quite clear on the concept   
      
   >>>> https://youtu.be/Di5erb47ry4   
      
   >>> According to Murray Bookchin (I was one of his students) it was   
   >>> because the Romans hearing them talk thought their language   
   >>> sounded like "bah-bah-bah." No kidding.   
   >> It was a Greek word (hoi barbaroi) that the Romans borrowed. The   
   >> story was that those crazy foreign lingos sounded like   
   >> "barbarbar".   
      
   >> I think the Romans were barbaroi to the Greeks, at least until   
   >> they occupied Greece.   
      
   > I believe that the term "Berber" came from barbarian.   
      
   +1.   
      
   https://www.etymonline.com/word/Berber   
      
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